ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 not booting

[beserker15]

hey everyone, i just bought a used ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 and i can't get it to boot. the power comes on when i hit the power button and everything else does too...however my monitor won't turn on and i here no beeps or anything. i have an athlon 64 3500, 1gb of tccc ram, and an agp x800xl. i'm not sure if there's anything i might be missing, is there any quick tips or something i might've missed?

 

[Greenman]

Clear the cmos memory so everything gets set to default.

 

[grooge]

Read the manual and make sure that all power connector are plugged in.

 

[metallibloke]

This board has a cold boot issue. I was reading a very long thread on HardOCP site about this board as I'm thinking of getting one. A lot of people solved this issue with a BIOS upgrade.

Link to start of very long thread

 

[beserker15]

clearing the cmos...that would be through just setting the jumper? or is it like some mobos i have to hit some button when it's powering on? also, i can't update the bios if it doesn't boot up though.

 

[metallibloke]

Originally posted by: beserker15
clearing the cmos...that would be through just setting the jumper? or is it like some mobos i have to hit some button when it's powering on? also, i can't update the bios if it doesn't boot up though.

True, but if it is the cold boot issue then it will boot after hitting the reset button a few times.

As for the CMOS question, not sure, you'd have to read the manual. Different boards do it slightly different ways i guess.

 

[beserker15]

ah, ok, gonna have to try that a little later. however, what kinda issue would i seem to have if i can't shut off the computer by holding down the power button? (having to press the psu button on the back to turn it off).

 

[professor1942]

To clear CMOS, remove the CMOS battery before moving the jumper pin.

"Please unplug the ATX power and remove the battery, use a metal material like paper clip to short the CLRCMOS1 soldering points or CLRCMOS2 jumpers for 3 seconds. After that, install the battery and plug the ATX power back to the motherboard.

Note: Please do not clear the CMOS right after you update the BIOS."

 

[Deslok]

This was from another post but it worked for me
Antec p180
Seasonic
opteron 146
Board was not booting at all. It got power, all fans spun for a sec then nothing.
Used a screwdriver on the power pins on the mobo- board booted into bios with checksum error message. even though i had followed ASRocks procedure prior.

 

[sander815]

i have similar problems with this board, older bios, 1.20 if i remember right
but it doesn't cold boot, all i get is spinning fans/hds etc, sometimes i see the bios from the gfx card, and then nothing.
What can i do?